Restraining Government in America and Around the World

A Great Day to Be an American

It was wonderful to wake up this morning in Austria and learn that Osama bin Laden is dead.

I’m proud of America’s special forces for their courage and ability. And I tip my hat to the Obama Administration for nailing OBL rather than capturing him (at least I hope that was the plan). Apparently the CIA Director got to watch live from Langley and see the loathsome maggot meet his long-overdue fate. Very cool.

Oh well, good riddance to Bin Laden anyway. There really is nothing like a good lead injection to teach those primitive camel-humpers not to screw with the civilised world. And the rest of America’s problems will still be there tomorrow after Obama’s done getting partisan credit, (though the cheering outside the White House seemed disturbingly like the worship of a man rather than pure patriotic sentiment).

But … congratulations. Chalk one up for the good guys. 9/11 was certainly worthy of the most extreme response if anything is.

This being a board about Liberty though I do have to add my concerns about who they’ll go after, and what the definition of “terrorism” and the “war” against it will expand to encompass, once they’re done with the Real Terrorists™. And that kind of chicanery just got politically easier.

Dan – you got the blend just right. Living in London on the day the Queen’s Guard played the US National Anthem was mind blowing. You have to be English to fully understand the significance of the act. To play the national anthem of a foreign country was without precedent – never before in the history of the changing of the guard had any anthem other than that of the British Queen been heard. It showed the deep kindred spirit and sympathy felt by the British public for the people of the United States. It brought my car and others driving the Mall to a standstill and as I looked around me all I could see was sorrow. I am sure I am not alone by saying this was one of the most moving moments of my life.